Charlie Crist Quotes

I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

I don't have a particular go-to political blog.

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

I have nothing against Jeb Bush personally.

I try not to get too political.

I'm not a big Trump fan. I'm not going to lie to anyone and say I am.

I can't go out with a Republican.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

My parents are Republicans, and I'm not.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

Don't hang out with the conservatives. They're boring. Hang out with the liberals. They're more interesting.

We’ve had some great presidents in my lifetime. I haven’t agreed completely with any of them.

After President Obama took office, his campaign book 'The Audacity of Hope' receded into his past fast. Its sweet, naive, bipartisan 'let's reason together' passages fell away, too.

In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.

My father's politics did not influence mine. In fact, we disagreed on a fair amount of stuff.

I don't support Trump. We'll put that right out there.